{"id":196021,"date":"2024-09-11T07:23:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/worlds-first-aerospike-aircraft-to-fly-this-month-after-crash-setback"},"modified":"2024-09-11T07:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T12:23:30","slug":"worlds-first-aerospike-aircraft-to-fly-this-month-after-crash-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/worlds-first-aerospike-aircraft-to-fly-this-month-after-crash-setback","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first aerospike aircraft to fly this month after crash setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-aerospike-aircraft-to-fly-this-month-after-crash-setback2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s first flight test for an aerospike rocket engine ended in disaster, but Polaris Aerospace is back on track, preparing to fly two new prototypes for its MIRA supersonic\/hypersonic aerospike spaceplane platform within weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/aircraft\/polaris-mira-test-flight-crash\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">MIRA I crashed upon takeoff<\/a>, Polaris Spaceplanes stated it would be going forward with the MIRA II and III. True to word, Polaris has unveiled two new, yet-to-be-fully completed airframes in a recent LinkedIn post.<\/p>\n<p>The MIRA II and III are identical 16.4 ft (5 m) airframes with 30% more wing area than their predecessor, the MIRA I. Polaris opted to create two identical airframes in order to speed up flight testing as well as have a \u201creserve\u201d aircraft if need be. \u201cIn addition,\u201d writes the team, \u201cthe design has been greatly improved compared to MIRA with incorporating all the lessons learnt so far.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first flight test for an aerospike rocket engine ended in disaster, but Polaris Aerospace is back on track, preparing to fly two new prototypes for its MIRA supersonic\/hypersonic aerospike spaceplane platform within weeks. Immediately after the MIRA I crashed upon takeoff, Polaris Spaceplanes stated it would be going forward with the MIRA II [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}